Lunch Time Sports Bites
Trying some new names out, as putting a “Lunch Time Sports Round Up” every day is quite boring, and it probably won’t look that good on the site. Unless I post other sport stories in between, but that sounds like way to much like hard work.
Today we have something on Herschelle Gibbs, a Tiger health update, a surprising fact about cricket and the usual transfer rumours from Europes soccer elite.
Gibbs to Quit
The big news today, for fans of South African fans at least, is that apparently Herschelle Gibbs is considering retirement from international cricket.
This comes as quite a shock, as A.) I thought he has retired already, when was the last time he played for South Africa, and B.) Why couldn’t it have been Mark Boucher? WHY?!?!?
Apparently someone close to Gibbs told Sports24, ““It has nothing to do with the fact that he has been omitted for the umpteenth time.”
Cheers everyone, off to have a bong, a beer and place a bet.
This is laughable for many reasons, the biggest of which is that the closest person to Gibbs is probably his drug dealer, so how reliable a source is that?
The next part of the quote, “While there are still a few options to consider, he feels that he has had enough after such a long career” is just plain ridiculous, because according other reports even IF he does retire from internationals, he will still be available for the Indian Premier League, the highest paid form of cricket in the world. Seems as if he really is considering those other options then…
Communal, open air toilets, definitely a reason to retire
The quote concludes, “The reality is that he should already have retired last year as he wanted to finish his career on a high in order to safeguard his legacy.” Which only serves to prove that Sport24 were talking to Gibbs’ drug dealer, or at the very least a drug taker, as even though I’m sure Gibbs was high at some stage last year, quitting then wouldn’t have ended his career on one.
I’m fairly sure it wasn’t more than 12 months ago when Gibbs had to enter rehab for alcoholism, adding to him getting busted for Marijuana earlier in his career AND being implicated in the infamous Variegate match fixing candle. Some legacy.
Tiger Watch
Even though Nike, Gillette, Golf Digest and Net jets have stuck with Tiger, probably the most important one (in terms of maintaining relationships with 47 girlfriends and a wife) Gatorade has their sponsorship of him and discontinued Gatorade Tiger drinks.
No more electrolytes for Tiger. 
This is very disturbing news for Tiger as he will have to look elsewhere for energy and electrolytes to maintain his infidelity. At the end of the day a cheater can’t change it’s spots and leopards never prosper.
In slightly more disturbing news (I laughed), it has emerged that Tiger seldom, if ever, used a condom with his binties and his wife is now experiencing an HIV plus other STD scare. Do the Hivvie!
Not sure if I'd cheat on this. Now possibly with HIV
Woods has been slammed by US health “experts”.
Infidelity expert (would like to find out how to become one of these) Ruth Houston claimed Woods is not a sex addict but just “enjoys playing around with the other women”. I wonder what “expertise” he had to study to come to this earth shattering conclusion.
BUT she has decided to stick with him, so hopefully that will be the end of that. Chances…
Cricket outperforms rugby and soccer
A headline that really caught my eye was that cricket has achieved a higher annual growth rate than both rugby and soccer in South Africa.
Soccer I can understand, it is played predominantly by black people, and all black people play soccer, so there isn’t much room for growth.
But rugby, seriously? Unless the stats take into account how many people have to stop playing rugby after injury, I’m not entirely sure how that is possible.
On the other hand, it may help to explain why attendances at cricket games have been so abysmal recently. Let me elaborate.
Cricket takes a bloody long time, the shortest form of the game that they can think of takes three hours and the longest takes five days, with various forms of the game falling in between those two. So now, as the highest growing sport in the country, more and more people are getting stuck out on cricket fields for vast amounts of time, and no one can make it to the ground to watch the professionals. Rugby attendances are safe because they only play cricket in the summer.
Rumors
The big transfer rumour floating around the English Premier League today is that Liverpool are interested in signing a Tottenham Hotspur striker.
For all the Liverpool fans out there who are struggling to come to terms with the poor year you have been having, this may push you over the edge.
Liverpool want to sign Tottenham fourth, in case you can’t read 4th, choice striker Roman Pavlyuchenko. The Russian has amassed a grand total playing time of about 37 and a half second this year, and Liverpool want him to replace Torres.
Soon to be in red for club and country. Maybe.
The financial trouble at Liverpool has been well documented, but the rumour rags have got around this by saying Rafa Benitez will offer Ryan Babel in exchange for the Russian. But with Spurs looking to try and recoup as much of the £17 Million they spent on Pavlyuchenko, Rafa may need to offer Babel plus cash.
At 22 Babel has really high resale value, so if Spurs want cash plus Babel it might be a deal breaker.
As a Spurs fan I hope the deal breaks, as far as Babel is concerned, my humble opinion, Do Not Want.
Also Blackburn join a long list of clubs who want Ruud van Nistelroy, and Chelsea have made a bid for Luis Suarez of Ajax, who is very highly rated around Europe.
Rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
Sevens
The South African leg of the IRB Sevens kicks off in George Tomorrow afternoon, so if you are in the area pop down, sevens really has become a sport on its own and is fantastic to watch. It is the newest Olympic Sport after all.
Soon to be in a George near you
South Africa are the defending champions at George and will hopefully manage a better performance than they did last week in Dubai.
Go to google, type in sevens and check out the first picture that comes up, I laughed.
Cheers
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